Helping Families Keep Their Child Support: The Role of TANF Design Choices

Publication Date: November 2000

Publisher: Center for Law and Social Policy

Author(s): Mark Greenberg

Research Area: Social conditions

Type: Other

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

When TANF assistance is paid to a family, the family must assign its child support to the state, and, typically, the family receives little or no benefit from the support that has been paid. However, states can act to ensure that families get the benefit of child support paid by nonresident parents. This set of an overheads, from a presentation to TANF and child support administrators at a meeting of the American Public Human Services Association, explains how states can ensure that families benefit from child support.